Epistemic closure

[Jonathan Lighter]

"...as a logician would."

JL

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> > The term refers to a situation where the information you receive is
> biased.
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> Surely it's more complicated than just turning a blind eye to good
> evidence. The sentence Victor quotes is decidedly unhelpful.
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> I doubt that Brooks fully absorbed the article Ben refers to; therefore I
> doubt that he's using the term as a logician was.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:
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>> On NPR today, probably "All Things Considered," David Brooks talked =
>> about "epistemic closure" in connection with the Republicans being =
>> blindsided by the election results. I believe he also described that =
>> term as an "information bias" and an "information cocoon." The term =
>> refers to a situation where the information you receive is biased.
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>> "Epistemic deductive closure" in 1976: http://ow.ly/faTca
>> "Epistemic closure" in 1985: http://ow.ly/faTed
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>> On April 27, 2010, Victor Steinbok quotes the term from a same-day =
>> article at =
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>> http://prospect.org/article/what-new-black-panther-case-actually-about.=20=
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>> Benjamin Barrett
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